PA Banding Surgery
Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is a simple surgical technique to reduce pulmonary over-circulation in some congenital heart disease. In the beginning, when the use of cardiopulmonary bypass was affected by many deleterious effects, this technique played a fundamental role in the treatment of patients with congenital heart defects and an intracardiac left-to-right shunt
PA banding is a palliative treatment particularly reserved for those patients who are unable to withstand an open heart procedure for total correction.
